Mississippi Probate Court Records
Mississippi Probate Records
Search for Mississippi probate records. A probate record search provides information on wills, estate distributions, heirs, surviving dependents, creditors, court ordered distributions, probate petitions, estate accounts, estate inventories, and genealogical information.
https://www.probaterecords.org/mississippi/
Mississippi Probate Records • FamilySearch
Mississippi probate records include dockets, wills, settlements, petitions, letters, guardianships, claims, and minutes. Probate records of Mississippi have been kept by the chancery courts or probate courts. You can obtain copies of the records by contacting the clerk's office in each county courthouse.
https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Mississippi_Probate_Records
Mississippi Probate Records, 1781-1930 • FamilySearch
This collection includes probate records filed in Mississippi county courts. A few records may go beyond 1930, but most records in this collection were created between the 1850 and 1930. The records include wills, administrations, inventories, court minutes, guardianships and other records of estates.
https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2036959
Mississippi Court Records | StateRecords.org
Mississippi court records are available online, and members of the public can access them remotely. The Mississippi Electronic Court (MEC) has the court records of most Mississippi courts online. MEC was chosen as the case management system because it is already in use in over 200 federal districts and bankruptcy courts.
https://mississippi.staterecords.org/court.php
Mississippi Court Records - A Guide to Courthouse Research
Mississippi Probate Records Mississippi Territory separated circuit courts from chancery courts, according to English law, even though it was also influenced by other European countries throughout the years. The 1817 state constitution created courts of probate in Mississippi, but they were originally known as “orphans’ courts.”
https://raogk.org/court-records/mississippi/
Mississippi Court Records - MS State Courts
These are also the courts for land issues and land records. County courts (divided by the counties of the state) have jurisdiction over domain proceedings and also deal with juvenile cases. Not all counties in Mississippi have a county court, but there are 20 of them around the state. Justice courts form another part of the judicial system.
https://www.statecourts.org/mississippi/
Mississippi probate records : COLLECTION RECORD, 1781-1930 - FamilySearch
Court minutes, 1834-1854, 1861-1873 / Mississippi. Probate Court (Winston County) Court minutes, 1834-1889; index to minutes, 1825-1848 / Mississippi. Probate Court (Copiah County) Court minutes, 1836-1849, 1855-1858, 1865-1869 / Mississippi. Probate Court (Pontotoc County) Court minutes, 1839-1844, 1866-1888 / Mississippi.
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2036959
State of Mississippi Judiciary - MS
Catholic Diocese of Jackson, Mississippi and Joseph R. Kopacz,Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Jackson v. Arie Mattheus De Lange. More SCT oral arguments. 2021-CC-00864-COA. 6/14/2022---1:30 p.m. DeSoto County, Mississippi v. Anthony and Quma Vinson and William and Hannah Allen. More COA oral arguments. LOGIN TO MEC.
https://courts.ms.gov/
Mississippi, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1780-1982
This collection includes images of probate records for approximately 93 percent of Mississippi counties. The records come from a collection of microfilm that took years to compile. They have been brought together from multiple courthouses over time to give you a single source to search.
https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/8995/
Chancery Courts - State of Mississippi Judiciary - MS
Chancery Courts have jurisdiction over disputes in matters involving equity; domestic matters including adoptions, custody disputes and divorces; guardianships; sanity hearings; wills; and challenges to constitutionality of state laws. Land records are filed in Chancery Court.
https://courts.ms.gov/trialcourts/chancerycourt/chancerycourt.php
Mississippi Probate Process | Mississippi Probate Attorney
The Mississippi probate process officially begins when the estate is “opened” in the local probate court (called a “chancery court” in Mississippi). This stage can be broken down into several steps: If there is a Last Will and Testament, the Mississippi estate attorney needs the original, signed document.
http://www.msprobate.com/mississippi/estate-attorney/